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Southern Highlands · Mining & the mines
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Sir,—These times of unprecedented depression and enforced retrenchment allround, affords a good opportunity for bringing again under the notice of the residents, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—These times of unprecedented depression and enforced retrenchment all round, affords a good opportunity for bringing again under the notice of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WITH sage old Adam Cook at the head, it seems as if something better than the "ethics of war" would govern the large, bodies of miners in the Northern coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SISTER mine, I promise you E'er to be sincere and true, Never err, or rashly vow What I would not promise now!…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"I USED to be a miner away down in the south-west corner of Idaho," said. Mr. Danford. " We had a big mining camp down there…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The church and school lands facing the Shoalhaven River, which it is proposed to throw open to the gold-seekers, is an important block of country in the parishes of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THIS method of finding employment has found considerable favour, and numbers of men have been furnished with miners, rights and railway passes to the different…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There is great surprise and complaints in Mudgee at the action of the Government in sending helpless unemployed men to make bread by fossicking. Several officials have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →HILL END.—Suttor and party obtained some magnificent specimens, estimated to contain at least 38oz. of gold. The Clymes claim yielded from the first crushing 70 tons 40oz; 22oz have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In connection with the placing of the unemployed on the goldfields to fossick for a living, two members of the board dealing with the matter—Mr. J. Creer and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Messrs. George Ulrick and party commenced mining operations last week on the Bundanoon Creek, about two miles from its confluence with this Kangaroo River. They…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Further riots have taken place between the miners on strike in Wales and those who refused to come out. Seven thousand men who have struck work at the Rhondda mines marched to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. F. R. Wilshire, district mining warden, held a court in Goulburn on Thursday morning. Messrs C. A. Armstrong and W. J. Hobbs applied for a suspension of labour…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Richard Tangye, the great English engineer, in his autobiography, gives some curious examples of the economy of the old Cornish miners. His grandfather was a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A nugget of gold weighing 7dwt. has been found at Cottrel's claim, Back Creek, na[?]r Bathurst, where sluicing operations is being carried on. The prospects on the Creek are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ON, on, we sped at speed varying from 8 to 30 miles per hour, just according to the different grades which we had to climb or descend. Arrived at the colliery,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A minor writes:—Having visited Bundadanoon Creek, where there are a few men at work, struggling hard to make a living, a little information from the locality may…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The conference on the question of mining on Private Lands, which has been sitting at the Hotel Metropole for some days past concluded its sittings on Monday. Much…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The girls were all marshalled by the whiterobed priests in a regular procession to a [?]irly large level spot near the top of the mountain, where they were arranged four or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The mining sensation for the week comes in from Windeyer, near Mudgee, where during last week two fine nuggets of gold were found. Some excitement was caused…
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